FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   584   585   586   587   588   589   590   591   592   593   594   595   596   597   598   599   600   601   602   603   604   605   606   607   608  
609   610   611   612   613   614   615   616   617   618   619   620   621   622   623   624   625   626   627   628   629   630   631   632   633   >>   >|  
with information gathered from other sources: Habitual drunkenness, in all except eight States. Wilful desertion, generally. Felony, in all except three. Cruelty, and intolerable cruelty, in all except five. Failure by the husband to provide, in twenty. Fraud and fraudulent contract, in nine. Absence without being heard from, for different periods, in six. Ungovernable temper, in two. Insupportably cruel treatment, outrages and excesses, in six. Indignities rendering life burdensome, in six. Attempt to murder other party, in three. Insanity or idiocy at time of marriage, in six. Insanity lasting ten years, in Washington; incurable insanity, in North Dakota, Florida and Idaho. Husband notoriously immoral before marriage, unknown to wife, in West Virginia. [Pregnancy of wife before marriage, unknown to husband, in many States]. Fugitive from justice, in Virginia. Gross misbehavior or wickedness, in Rhode Island. Any gross neglect of duty, in Kansas and Ohio. Refusal of wife to remove into the State, in Tennessee. Mental incapacity at time of marriage, in Georgia. Three years with any religious society that believes the marriage relation unlawful, in Massachusetts; and joining any such sect, in New Hampshire. When parties can not live in peace and union, in Utah. Vagrancy of the husband, in Missouri and Wyoming. Excesses, in Texas. Where wife by cruel and barbarous treatment renders condition of husband intolerable, in Pennsylvania. By reference to the History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. I, pp. 482, 717, 745 and following, it will be seen that the resolutions favoring divorce for habitual drunkenness offered in the first women's conventions, during the early '50's, almost disrupted the meetings, and caused press and pulpit throughout the country to thunder denunciations, but half a century later such laws exist in thirty-seven of the forty-five States and meet with general approval. It is frequently charged that the granting of woman suffrage has been followed by laws for free divorce, but an examination of the statutes will show that exactly the same causes obtain in the States where women do not vote as in those where they do; that there has not been the slightest change in the latter since the franchise was given them; and that in Wyoming, where it has been exercised since 1869, there is the smallest percentage of divorce in proportion to the populat
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   584   585   586   587   588   589   590   591   592   593   594   595   596   597   598   599   600   601   602   603   604   605   606   607   608  
609   610   611   612   613   614   615   616   617   618   619   620   621   622   623   624   625   626   627   628   629   630   631   632   633   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

marriage

 

husband

 

States

 

divorce

 

Insanity

 

treatment

 
unknown
 

Wyoming

 
Virginia
 

drunkenness


intolerable

 
meetings
 
habitual
 
offered
 

exercised

 
favoring
 

caused

 
resolutions
 

disrupted

 

conventions


smallest
 

reference

 

History

 

proportion

 

Pennsylvania

 

condition

 

barbarous

 

populat

 
renders
 

Suffrage


percentage

 

thunder

 

charged

 

granting

 

suffrage

 

slightest

 

frequently

 

statutes

 
examination
 
obtain

change
 

franchise

 
century
 
denunciations
 

country

 
approval
 

general

 

thirty

 

pulpit

 
unlawful